Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-12-28

n OWING TO the feO00G Q6clSlO0 tOI 606 Su-4
preme Court risks amounting to$2OO, 600
on the property OF brewers ut Dubuque, Ia !,
were on t e ooh ordered cancelled by East
ern insurance companies. :,
A blizzard prevailed on the Goth In por-
tions Of Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois,
Missouri, Kansas and Colorado The snow
was unusually heavy, aud was driven by o
fierce! wind, blockading railway trains
The thermometer was "a degrees below
zero at some points ,es,-~-,ur
TIE wall of a new building ut Joliet, ILL.,,
fell on the Goth, killing two men and in
Turing several others, two of them fatally.
> ADv1cEs of the" 10th from some Of the
counties In Western Kansas, part oularly
Clark, were to The effect that the farmers
were suffering for the want of food, coal
and clothing. Six persons were known to
have died from freezing. ''.2 w.
DANIEL BURTCH, plantation manager at
Franklin, La, was shot and killed on the
2O.h by his stepson, Malcolm Cook, aged
eighteen years. ,.~<,.
EIIHU GREGG, notorious horse-thief, was
found dead in the mountains of West Vir-
ginia ON the 20 b with q bullet-hOle IN his
breast The man was over eighty years
old, and he had been known as desperate
criminal for fifty years. so "tt =
The employees in the passenger and ticket
departments Of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
railroad were suspended on thu Goth pend
ing an investigation of Their accounts by
the auditor and his clerks Crooked work
was suspected
IT was stated ON the Goth that owing to
the closing Of the South Carolina phosphate
mines many negroes were starving
The town of Weeping Water. Neh, was
r1s hot 4~o0 %I>oO
II. D. LYMAN, OF the American Surety
that in the past year there had been fifty
turee entertainments in the country,
amounting to $3,84O,57 and that the
criminals were all in Canada
WILLIAM SHOWERS, who brutality slew his
two little grandsons at Lebanon. Pa, last
September, was on the 20 III found guilty of
murder in the first degree.
The steamer Mirana, en- route from jog
gins, N. s., for New York with an enormous
raft composed of twenty-seven thousand
logs, lost her tow during heavy storm,
and it was feared on the Doth that it would
get into the track OF the European steam
erS.
AN explosion of gas on the 21st In the
Nottingham mine at Plymouth, Pa, killed
four men
TIE steamer banana, which arrived at
New York on the Dist from Cape Hayti. re-
ported that in a storm of the West Indies
seventy vessels were wrecked and twenty
one sailors were drowned
A NEW town is being established near
Trussville, Ala, by Eastern capitalists in
terested in the iron business Additional
furnaces will be built and heavy invest
ments be made in property.
TIE business portion Of the town Of o.
well, Ind, was destroyed by fire on tho
21st
e. l. PACKER. one Of the largest lumber
dealers of Pittsburgh, Pa, failed on the
Dist
A DBPUrE over politics in q saloon at
Opelousas, La, on the Dist ended in the
fatal sho citing Of three men,
TIE collections of internal revenue for
the first FIVE months of the present fiscal
year amounted to $51, 500, $40. being an
the corresponding period Of last year.
COMMODORE GHERARD1, in command of the
New York navy yard, was on the Dist in
structed to send a vessel after the enormous
raft supposed to be adrift i'm the path of
ocean steamers.
In a match game Of three-ball billiards at
Boston ON the 21st Harvey McKenna, of
Detroit, made a run of 2, 4s7, beating the
worlds record.
In portions Of Colorado on the 21st the
thermometer registered from 20 to 81 de-
grees below zero, the latter record being at
Robinson, where the cold was 80 intense
that the people feared to venture from their
honsea
The escape Of naphtha into sewers at
Rochester, N. Y, on the 21st caused explo-
sions in several streets, blowing up the man
holes and creating great cons ernation. The
flames accompanying the explosion burned
three mills, and four men were killed by
falling walls.
A FIRE at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Dist de.
stroyed the dry-goods establishment Of
Fleishman g. Co. and the toy-store Of Yeager
& Co, causing loss Of $500, 600
THREE Ia1n-men were fatally injured on
the 21st by collision on the st Paul road
at Jackson Junction, la.
THE Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
steamer San Vincente was burned to the
waters edge off Pigeon point on the Dist,
and out Of the crew Of nineteen officers and
men eleven were lost
HURD, WAITE & Co., dry-goods dealers at
Brooklyn, N. Y, failed on the Dist for
$175, 600
IT was said on the 21st that the Standard
Oil Company was preparing to construct an
immense pipe line to Chicago for the trans
portation Of oil for fuel. and would build q
thousand tanks at Lima, O., for tho storage
of the product Of the Northwestern Ohio
field.
IT was announced on the 22d that gold
and silver in large quantities had been
found on the Hiawasser river in North Caro-
lima. Six Thousand acres had been ex-
plored
THE years product Of -four at Minneapolis
was on the 22d reported at 6,616, 700 bar
rela
MRS. MARIA BURTON, of San Diego, Cal,
on the 22d won Eer suit for property in
lower California valued at 81 zoo, OOO
Two LADIES were fatally injured on tho
22d by collision ON the Ohio b Northwest
:ern railroad near Cincinnati
% Two MEN were killed on the 22d In riot
ut Glenmary, Tenn. which had it's origin
In a quarrel between white and colored
workn,en.
OWING to excessive competition, the Nom
tauk Fire Insurance Company Of Brooklyn,
n Y, on the 22d decided to discontinue
business
IS TNrysyyAY1,Y cold weather Drevailed IN the